The first message looked a mess so here is a resend. On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 14:56 -0400, Diane Mackay wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > [...] > > Diane, > > > > I have tried to respond to your tirade but I am worried about how you > > perceive things. We cannot ask you questions, we cannot add items to the > > FAQs without your permission, we cannot make suggestions, we cannot ask > > you to do simple things like wrap your messages and ... > > Well, I guess I have to admit that I do not see myself like > this, but it must be true, I guess, as it seems FAQs are > avoided when I am there. I'm going to cave to your > suggestion, Ger, that I am way off base. I am sooooo very sorry. >
Not totally. I sure can contribute to misconceptions and I will admit to being terse. > > > > What is it you really want? Your biggest problem seems to be that I add > > items to the FAQs on the doc project, Especially ones that have issues > > such as 43188. Sorry. > > What I really want, more than anything, is collaboration; > but it seems that I'm not quite there on the inside yet, so > I will again go away to see if I can grow myself to a better > place. I keep trying. I keep thinking I'm ok and growing and > coming into an attitude that is more on track, but I have to > take your feedback as constructively as I can, and trust > that I've still not grown to where I wish to be. Please > accept my apologies. I really don't wish to be as difficult > as I come across. > I still think that we need a leader. That's you if you like. These FAQs can be a pain when we are in transition. But if not you, who will care enough to do the slogging. I will help where I can and will follow your directions. > > > > FAQs are yours. I will say this that your comments in 43188 were not > > called for. I hope you can see that. If not, carry on. > > No, please. I would rather see tons of people working in the > FAQs, than just me. If it is me that is holding others away, > then I must remove myself as the hurdle, in order to honor > my own visions as much as possible. > > I'm very sorry to have suggested that those new faqs be > placed in another directory. To me that really did make the > most sense. It was not presented as a control issue, but as > a simplified organization style. I do not wish to control > anything. I guess I also wanted to feel like my > contributions were worth adding to, as well, and I did work > pretty hard to put those FAQs in place. Maybe your approach > somehow made me feel dismissed, so I reacted? I'm so sorry > that I appear so psycho to you. It is embarrassing, > especially when I see it as so straightforward from my own > view. I find it very confusing, but I'm still damn > determined to make myself easier to other to work beside. > > Anyway, carry on... I won't interfere. Again I'm sorry. I > wish I could be better, but I'm pretty convinced that I > might never find my way there, at this point. > Interfere? Not interfering. I think that we need someone who cares enough to speak her piece in place. As far as I am concerned you are it. Please use your role to make the faqs as good as we can. If you will point me to an issue, recent discussion (remember I missed three weeks moving) where any item I want included can be placed for integration. I also apologize for doing in public what should have been done in private. -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PATH tech -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
